Artificial Intelligence On A $500 Computer Can Outfly A Fighter Pilot

Paramount Pictures Artificial intelligence, or AI, may never simulate human intelligence, but it’s still better at some tasks than humans are. Disconcertingly, one of those tasks is “blowing other humans out of the sky.” And not only can this AI outfly a human, it can do it on a computer anybody can pick up at Best Buy. The University of Cincinnati has been building an AI named Alpha to improve military drones. The idea is not to teach the drone how to operate completely on its own, but rather to research how AI could improve them. For example, if a drone gets a missile launched at it, it could automatically avoid it instead of waiting for its human operator to notice. But until recently, Alpha had only fought other AI…